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Capcom. What are you doing. Capcom. Stahp. why a digital only release. why.Edit 1: American trailer. God I want this game.Edit 2: New Japanese Trailer. The new characters look interesting. Also, you can see the return of an old one in this video.Edit 3: Confirmed returning characters. Dem glasses, man.

Edit 4: There apparently will be a FULLY LOCALIZED playable copy at E3 this year.

1.The Length of Dual Destinies is about the same as Trials and TribulationsThey wouldn't specify on the amount of cases, but he said that it would have roughly the amount of content of T&T and would take 25-30 hours to complete.

2. The Jurist system will not be returning.Apparently the Jury will not be returning. No details about how that plot line changed at the moment.

3. Sam Reigel is officially back as Phoenix WrightI think we guessed this already based on the English trailer, but the man who voiced Phoenix in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 is returning as Phoenix.

4. Simon Blackquill is a convicted prosecutor who uses psychological manipulation on his opponents and even the judge.Again, something I think we already kind of knew, but it's been confirmed.

5. The recurring Stepladder joke returns in Dual Destinies.Eshiro confirmed that the Stepladder joke returns in some form, but that the players have to find it for themselves.

6. Maya hinted as a returning character? (No denial of Maya)When asked if Maya would return, Eshiro simply said something along the lines of "I wonder about Maya...", being deliberately vague. In light of his response to the question about Gumshoe, this seems to indicate Maya will return (as if we didn't know that already).

7. Detective Gumshoe will not be in Dual Destinies (Most likely)When asked about Gumshoe, Eshiro said that he didn't know what Gumshoe was up to these days, and another Capcom host said something along the lines of "Well, you can't have every character come back in every single game". This means that Gumshoe probably won't appear.

8. Simon's Detective is named Detective Fulbright.

Fulbright's motto is "In Justice We Trust!". Fulbright is immune to Simon's psychological manipulation because he's too oblivious to know Simon is trying to manipulate him.Though the theme of the game is ‘dark days in law’, Eshiro doesn’t think the game’s tone is itself much darker than previous entries. He did however emphasize that they wanted a shocking first case.The game being in 3D has let them give characters’ animation a lot more life, and do things like show a door opening rather than just use a sound effect or text box.Wouldn’t say anything on Edgeworth except that he’s the Chief Prosecutor these days.The animated cutscenes will have full English voiceover.

Eshiro said the digital-only release was due largely in part to the game’s development schedule.

“The reason we are releasing the game as digital only is not primarily due to a lack of retail support,” he said in a recent interview. “One of the main reasons we went for a digital version is it will be more convenient for the users. We felt that if someone will be interested in Dual Destinies they will want to get it right away, and if we offer a digital version, instead of going to a store however many miles away, they can just download it directly to their 3DS.”

Eshiro also said the developer wanted to release Dual Destinies in the west as close as possible to its initial Japanese launch date, and due to the game’s tight development schedule this necessitated the cut. He added that he wanted players overseas to not have to deal with the long wait typically associated with launching Japanese titles in North America.

As for a physical release?

Eshiro added that if there if fans push hard for a physical release, Capcom will consider releasing a physical boxed version of Ace Attorney — Dual Destinies.also, they gave a legitimate reason why AAI2 was never localized.normally a game's dev team will work with the localization team to give a proper localization to a gamehowever, the AAI2 team was disbanded and split up amongst the company shortly after the game's releasemaking it incredibly hard to localize without them as a cohesive group.

Lastly, the site introduced the “Thought Route” (カンガエルート kangae ruuto) system, which you probably saw in last week’s trailer.

When the trial has reached its climax, Apollo and the others might find that though they know the truth, they still can’t quite nail the true criminal. When this happens, Apollo reviews the facts that have come to light and uses them to build a train of thought leading to a new deduction. The player is presented with a series of choices of varying kinds (items connected to the case, facts that were revealed in court, etc.) and must choose the correct one to advance the reasoning towards one final fact.

(As an aside, there’s nothing saying this system is unique to Apollo, he’s just the example provided.)

For such a short time between Japanese and English releases, the localization is wonderful as always. I've laughed out loud many times and I'm only on case 1.

Case 1's really long, it's a two-day court trial. I'm used to the first cases being over in a single day. It's pretty good though, I like that it extends out the gameplay. I started it last night but I didn't finish the case because I was too tired, so I'm finishing it now.

Doctor Shrunk wrote:For such a short time between Japanese and English releases, the localization is wonderful as always. I've laughed out loud many times and I'm only on case 1.

Case 1's really long, it's a two-day court trial. I'm used to the first cases being over in a single day. It's pretty good though, I like that it extends out the gameplay. I started it last night but I didn't finish the case because I was too tired, so I'm finishing it now.

Ditto. I was expecting to just deal with stuff, go over new mechanics and go home.

I was pleasantly surprised.

in other news, the localization seems to have forgone mainstream memes so far, (as opposed to sal manella and the 1337speak, or "No maya, this is S.P.A.R.D.A.) and gone with other, more... subtle references.

"When our powers combine" and "you were only five shades of pale. I was expecting fifty!" being two good examples.

I liked the shout out to Big Bird. Never change, localization. There's a few grammatical errors here and there but otherwise it's really, really good, especially since they did it in such a short time.